Whistle-organ.



No.84j7 ,169.. PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

- J. 0. EARLEY, JR,

WHISTLE ORGAN. APPLICATION FILED my 11, 1906.

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ATTORNEYS JAMES O. EARLEY, JR, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

WHISTLE-ORGAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed May 11, 1906. Serial No. 316,404.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES O. EARLEY, Jr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented a new Whistle-Organ, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to musical instruments and its object is to provide a new and improved whistle-organ arranged to sound graduated whistles on the. operator playing corresponding keys.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described herein after, and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. V

Figure 1 is a cross-section of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional front elevation of the same,- on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the same, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

A suitably-constructed casing A of the piano or organ type is provided with a key oard B, having keys B, each supporting at its rear end a rod C, carrying a cap or valve D, normally closing the entrance end of a whistle E, the several whistles of the instrument being graduated, as plainly indicated in Fig. 3, so as to produce different graduated sounds. The entrance ends of the whistles E extend into a wind-chest F, which also su ports the whistles, and the said windchest F is connected by a number of apertures G with a main wind-chest H, and the said a ertures G are normally closed by heads of stops I, extending to the outside of the main wind-chest H, to be within convenient reach of the performer seated in front of the instrument and laying the keys B. The main wind-chest is connected by a flexible tube J with a compensating reservoir K of the usual construction and connected by tubes L with the outlet ends of bellows N, connected with and actuated by edals 0, adapted to be manipulated by the cot of the performer seated 1n front of the instrument The operation is as follows: When the edals O are actuated, air is um ed by the ellows N by way of the to es into the compensating reservoir K, from which the air can pass by way of the tube J into the main wind-chest H. Now when the operator pulls one, two, or more of the stops I,then air passes from the main wind-chest H into the wind-chest F, and when the performer now plays the keys B then the corresponding caps D are moved from the entrance ends of the corresponding whistles E, so that the whistles are sounded to produce sounds corresponding to the keys that have been pressed by the performer. As soon as the performer releases the keys B then the latter return to their normal position, and in doing so the ca s D move back over the entrance ends 0 the whistles E to cut off the air from the whistles, and thus stop sounding the same. Now by the performer manipulating the keys B according to a piece of music, it is evident that this piece of music is performed in the same manner as if organpipes or piano-strings were sounded in the usual manner.

The whistle-organ shown and described is ving thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent" 1. A whistle-organ, comprising a main wind-chest extending through the front of the casing of the instrument over the keyboard, means for supplying air to the chest, an auxiliary wind-chest in rear of the main chest and having communication therewith, a stop controlling the communication between the said chests, said stop extending out through the front of the main chest, a plurality of whistles of varying lengths secured to the auxiliary chest with their ends projecting into the same, valves for closing the said ends of the whistles, and keys rovided with rods ex tending into the auxiliary wind-chest and secured to the valves.

2. A whistle-organ, comprising a main wind-chest in the casing of the instrument with its front end adjacent to the keyboard, means for supplying air to the chest, an auxiliary wind chest having communication with the main chest, a stop controlling the communication between the chests, said stop extending out through the front of the main wind-chest, a plurality of whistles of varying lengths secured to and communicating with the auxiliary wind-chest, valves for controlling the communication between the auxiliary wind-chest and whistles, and keys pro- IFS IIO

vided with rods extending into the auxiliary wind-chest and carrying the said valves.

3. A whistle-organ comprising a main wind-chest in the casing of the instrument with its end adjacent to the keyboard, a compensating reservoir connected with the said wind-chest for supplying the latter with air, bellows for pumping air into the said compensating reservoir, a whistle wind-chest adjacent to and communicating with the main wind-chest, stops controlling the communicationbetween the said main wind-chest and the said whistle wind-chest, said stops extending out through the front of the main wind-chest, whistles having their entrance ends projecting into the said whistle windchest, means for normally closing the entrance ends of the whistles, and keys controlling the said means.

i. A Whistle-organ comprising a main wind-chest in the casing of the instrument with its end adjacent to the keyboard,

a compensating reservoir connected with the said wind-chest for supplying the latter with air, bellows for pumping air into the said compensating reservoir, a whistle windchest adjacent to and communicating with the main wind-chest, stops controlling the communication between the saidmain windchest and the said whistle wind-chest, said stops extending out through the front of the main wind-chest, whistles having their en trance ends projecting into the said whistle wind-chest, caps for normally closing the entrance ends of the said whistles, keys, and rods carrying the said caps and attached to the inner ends of the said keys.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAS. O. EARLEY,JR.

Witnesses:

E. L. BRAGBY, W. P. WILLrs 

